chloroform

See also: Chloroform

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chloroforme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɔːɹə(ʊ)̩fɔː(ɹ)m/

Noun

chloroform (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl₃; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.

Synonyms

• trichloromethane
• chloric ether
• Guthrie's sweet whiskey, sweet whiskey

Derived terms

• chloroformer
• chloroformism
• chloroformist
• deuterochloroform
• methylchloroform
• nitrochloroform

 

Translations

(chemistry) an anesthetic

• Arabic: كْلُورُوفُورْم m (klurufūrm)
• Basque: kloroformo
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: cloroform (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氯仿 (luk⁶ fong²)

  Mandarin: 氯仿 (zh) (lǜfǎng), 哥羅仿／哥罗仿 (zh), 哥罗仿 (zh) (gēluófǎng)

• Czech: chloroform m
• Esperanto: kloroformo
• Finnish: kloroformi (fi)
• French: chloroforme (fr) m
• German: Chloroform (de) n
• Hindi: क्लोरोफार्म (hi) m (klorophārm)
• Hungarian: kloroform (hu)
• Icelandic: klóróform n
• Italian: cloroformio (it) m
• Japanese: クロロホルム (kurorohorumu)
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• Korean: 클로로포름 (keulloroporeum)
• Maori: kororohama
• Polish: chloroform (pl) m
• Portuguese: clorofórmio (pt) m
• Russian: хлорофо́рм (ru) m (xlorofórm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кло̏роформ m, хло̏роформ m

  Roman: klȍroform (sh) m, hloroform m

• Slovene: klorofórm m
• Spanish: cloroformo (es) m
• Swedish: kloroform (sv) c
• Tagalog: kloropormo
• Thai: คลอโรฟอร์ม (th) (klɔɔ-roo-fɔɔm)
• Turkish: kloroform (tr)
• Ukrainian: хлорофо́рм m (xlorofórm)

Verb

chloroform (third-person singular simple present chloroforms, present participle chloroforming, simple past and past participle chloroformed)

1. To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform.

Related terms

• fluoroform
• bromoform
• iodoform

Translations

to treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform

• Finnish: nukuttaa kloloformilla, tainnuttaa kloloformilla
• French: chloroformer (fr)
• Hungarian: kloroformoz, kloroformmal elaltat
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• Italian: cloroformizzare (it)
• Spanish: cloroformizar (es)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xlɔˈrɔ.fɔrm/

Noun

chloroform m inan

1. chloroform CHCl₃

Declension

Declension of chloroform

	singular
nominative	chloroform
genitive	chloroformu
dative	chloroformowi
accusative	chloroform
instrumental	chloroformem
locative	chloroformie
vocative	chloroformie